Napkins drawn by Nina Levy for her 13 and 9 year old sons.
Daily for 10 years. Now that the kids eat in the school cafeteria:
merely regularly.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Charmander Rides the G

Pokemon: Unsafe at any speed underground in NYC

We somehow
managed to dodge it for a while, but Pokemon Go obsession has finally
seized our older son. The younger one is not all that interested in the
game itself, but is amenable to reigniting the general obsession with
things Pokemon. Thus we have the two napkins picturing each of the kids'
favorite Pokemon of the moment. The younger requested Charmander, and
the older, Wigglytuff.

I inserted them into our morning subway commute to summer camp.

The
MTA is clearly concerned about the safety of people playing the game in
the subway. As am I of course. While a game that actually encourages
our older child to put his pants on and leave the house is not a thing
to be scoffed at, I am worried about his inattention to the surrounding
real world. Below is the MTA poster telling commuters to not fall onto
the tracks while trying to catch Pikachu.... or maybe not to try to save
Pikachu from a certain and horrible death by subway train....

These napkins were rather casually executed, Due to health issues, my
staying up late privileges have been permanently suspended, probably permanently. I pretty
much have to go to bed at the same time as my kids, minus some hurried
lunch packing and laundry doing. A two napkin evening is definitely a
thing of the past, so I had a hard time finishing these two in the
morning while we were trying to get out the door for camp.